Live Review: BIGSOUND LIve: Safia

Luminous Canberran electro trio SAFIA seem to have picked the perfect time to make themselves known to the BIGSOUND crowd.

Keeping in mind the impressed whispers following them everywhere they go lately, a side-stage position proves prime real estate from which to have an open sightline to every key, button, pad, switch, pedal and other technical wizardry the quickly maturing three-piece has at their disposal in creating their considered, sometimes stark, often complex chilled-out computer-driven jams.

A particularly enjoyable way to spend some time is watching drummer Michael Ball and his precise changes between acoustic and electric percussion, but then again, in a half-hour that traverses the band's surprisingly varied soundscape from early songs to a brand spankin' new, ever-so-slightly tropical cut, SAFIA aren't exactly short on good reasons to watch them - any of them; ALL of them - intently.